§ Sir THOMAS ESMONDEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amount of interest received on the credit balances of the various public Departments in Ireland for the year ending 31st March, 1910, and the purposes to which this interest has been applied?
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§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe balances standing to the credit of the ordinary drawing accounts of Public Departments do not bear interest either in Ireland or in Great Britain. There is, I believe, a deposit account—possibly more than one—belonging to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction upon which interest is allowed, and there may be other similar accounts belonging to other Irish Departments. I have no detailed information with regard to these accounts, in which the Treasury is not directly interested, but my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary would no doubt be able to obtain the particulars desired.